Leo Tolstoy

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.